Posted on 07/15/2007 5:44:23 PM PDT by bnelson44
MP George Galloway is set to be suspended from Parliament over his links to a charity bankrolled by illicit deals involving Saddam Hussein's regime.
He will be barred from the Commons for one month by Parliament's standards watchdog for failing properly to declare his connections with the Mariam Appeal, it was reported.
Mr Galloway, who became an MP for his own Respect party after being expelled from Labour, may also be asked to apologise for his behaviour by the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, Sir Philip Mawer.
Last month a damning report by the Charity Commission concluded that the Mariam Appeal, established by Mr Galloway in 1998 to deliver medical aid to Iraq and arrange treatment outside Iraq for sick Iraqi children, took 'significant' amounts of money improperly from Iraq.
It said Mr Galloway, a trustee, may have known the appeal - which campaigned against sanctions on Iraq - received £230,000 of aid money that had been diverted from the UN oil-for-food programme in Iraq.
The charity watchdog's report, published after a 16-month inquiry, found that Mr Galloway and fellow trustees broke the law by taking the cash, but it only gave him a slap on the wrist because the money was all spent on humanitarian causes.
The Commons ban would be one of the most severe given to an MP. Mr Galloway, who was ridiculed after appearing on Celebrity Big Brother, has vehemently denied any wrongdoing and has claimed he is the victim of a smear campaign.
He called last month's Charity Commission findings 'sloppy, misleading and partial'. He could not be contacted yesterday.
The Mariam Appeal has never filed any accounts and the parliamentary authorities have been unable to account for some expenditure.
The MP was expelled from Labour in October 2003 after his outspoken comments on the Iraq war. He accused Tony Blair and President Bush of acting 'like wolves' in invading Iraq.
Who is America’s George Galloway???
I wonder if Durban and his fellow Baghdad travelers took money too? They should be investigated with an electron microscope.
Would be willing to bet on it. Unfortunately the Conservative Media has been so busy bashing Bush they have had little time to address the links between Islamic extremists, CAIR and the Democrat Party.
Why isn't he is jail?
Good lord, it’s about time for this traitor.
The Brits have gone so soft, Churchill is rolling in his grsve, not an easy task at his age and weight.
That too.
...along witth Villapin, Chirac, Annan and Putin. Backstabbing criminals all.
Pick a Democrat, any Democrat. And half of the Republicans...
I'd like to award the Lifetime Achievement Awards in George Gallowayism to both Ramsey Clark and Jimmy Carter.
Galloway gets his comeuppance ping.
“Who is America’s George Galloway???”
George Soros
Frigen guy should be hanging from a rope as some others in this post have suggested. So many who made money off Saddam walk free.
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